Did you know that Mother’s Day began as a call to action to - TopicsExpress

Did you know that Mother’s Day began as a call to action to improve the lives of families through health and peace? Ann Jarvis of Appalachia founded Mother’s Day in 1858 to promote sanitation in response to high infant mortality. After the Civil War, abolitionist Julia Ward Howe made a Mother’s Day call to women to protest the carnage of war. To explore the history and purpose of Mother’s Day, beyond the textbooks and commercial media, we offer below the original proclamation by Julia Ward Howe, a short film called Mother’s Day for Peace, an excerpt from an article on the Appalachian origins of Mother’s Day, and an excerpt from an article called “The Original Anti-War Mother’s Day.” See here: bit.ly/1uMVyUM Photo from the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute Mothers Day Walk for Peace.